He is kept afloat by a tight circle of enablers who cover for him and spin his lies.

This is the result of his pathological lying  he lies about anything and everything  telling the world whatever he wants it to believe regardless of the reality surrounding his pronouncements.

Take his statement that “100-million” people have signed up for ObamaCare  that’s nearly 1/3 of the entire 315-million person population of the US.

It is a number that prima fascia is irrational.

This is what makes their silence so scary: It means that the WH aides are at a point where they so fear the mad king’s wrath that they will abandon reality for his irrational fantasies.

They will no longer be a wall of reality constraining his thinking to the Real World.

That is mental disconnect.

That is insanity.

That is Barack Obama.

And this latest exercise in waving his hand, and thinking that reality magically changes when he does, shows Barack Obama is disconnected from reality, and must be removed from office before his mental illness drives him to even more desperate, irrational thinking  and even more dangerous, irrational actions.

I have said that we need to increase the size of our military which politically if it got to the floor probably would pass, but as you know a whole bunch of folks on the left who think that is a waste of money, I think it is important for us to do.

Together, they wrote the book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. Professor Cornel West:

CORNEL WEST: Well, the first thing, I think we have to acknowledge that President Obama has very little moral authority at this point... because he tries to rationalize the killing of innocent children, 221 so far, in the name of self-defense... in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen.

So when he comes to talk about the killing of an innocent person, you say, "Well, wait a minute. What kind of moral authority are you bringing?

You’ve got $2 million bounty on Sister Assata Shakur. She’s innocent, but you are pressing that intentionally.

Will you press for the justice of Trayvon Martin in the same way you press for the prosecution of Brother Bradley Manning and Brother Edward Snowden?

But then, Ray Kelly, major candidate for Department of Homeland Security, he’s the poster child of racial profiling.

You know, Brother Carl Dix and many of us went to jail under Ray Kelly.

Why?

Because he racially profiled millions of young black and brown brothers.

AMY GOODMAN: Ray Kelly... police chief of New York City.

CORNEL WEST: He even says Ray Kelly expresses his values.

Ray Kelly is a magnificent police commissioner.

How are you going to say that when the brother is reinforcing stop and frisk?

So the contradictions become so overwhelming here.

AMY GOODMAN: But President Obama, speaking about his own life experience, going from saying, "Trayvon Martin could have been my child," to "Trayvon Martin could have been me"?

CORNEL WEST: That’s beautiful.

That’s an identification.

The question is: Will that identification hide and conceal the fact there’s a criminal justice system in place that has nearly destroyed two generations of very precious, poor black and brown brothers?

He hasn’t said a mumbling word until now.

Five years in office and can’t say a word about the new Jim Crow.

And at the same time, I think we have to recognize that he has been able to hide and conceal that criminalizing of the black poor as what I call the re-niggerizing of the black professional class.

You’ve got these black leaders on the Obama plantation, won’t say a criminal word about the master in the big house, will only try to tame the field folk so that they’re not critical of the master in the big house.

... Obama and Holder, will they come through at the federal level for Trayvon Martin?

We hope so.

Don’t hold your breath.

And when they don’t, they’re going to have to somehow contain that rage.

And in containing that rage, there’s going to be many people who say, "No, we see, this president is not serious about the criminalizing of poor people."

We’ve got a black leadership that is deferential to Obama, that is subservient to Obama, and that’s what niggerizing is.

Whether Obama was duped, blackmailed, entrapped, bribed, coddled or threatened, he has supremely succeeded in climbing to what he probably thought was the top of the ladder…only to find it was up against the wrong wall!

And then to find his ladder didn’t even go to the “top”  he has at least five layers of institutional power plus the secret societies telling him what to do.

Instead of taking him to the heights of justice and respected leadership, or over the barricades of tyranny and deception to the fields of true freedom, Obama’s ascent has given him a vulture’s eye view of the broken-down, toxin-infested penthouse of fraud and violence that is our authoritarian and imperialist State.

When he tries to defend his administration’s rampant surveillance he can barely find the words.

Whether we believe he would have changed things if he could have, or that he was in on this deal from the start, the facts remain the same: Obama is carrying out virtually the same agenda as the Bushes.

Diane Wilson, a Texas shrimp boat captain in her sixties, has been regularly demonstrating outside of the White House in an effort to raise awareness of the 166 Gitmo detainees who are on hunger strike.

As an act of solidarity with the detainees, Diane Wilson has been fasting for 57 days.

“Of course, the biggest irony of all, the protestations of Obama himself in his speech to children in Northern Ireland about peace, when he said, ‘those who choose the path of peace, I promise you, that the United States of America will support you every step of the way. We will always be the wind at your back.’

Now, I ask you, is this person going for the hypocrite of the century award?

Because we have to call things by their right names, and the reality is that by any serious examination, this man is a war criminal.

He has just announced his decision to supply arms to the Syrian opposition, including the jihadists, fueling the destabilization of that region and continuing to undermine secularism and knock back conditions for women.”

The White House on Friday reaffirmed its threat to veto the Pentagon budget after the Senate passed a funding bill that requires military detention for terrorism suspects and indefinite detention without trial.

I got this all wrong if what Levin says is correct.

It was Obama who required the Indefinite Detainment Bill INCLUDE U.S. Citizens as part of the wording!

Paul Craig Roberts said he jumped to conclusions when thinking Obama legals oppose military detention on constitutional grounds.

Me too.

In this evil of which we are engulfed, thinking even slightly positive is a grave error!

Kewe

However, on further reflection I conclude that the Obama regime’s objection to military detention is not rooted in concern for the constitutional rights of American citizens.

The regime objects to military detention because the implication of military detention is that detainees are prisoners of war.

As Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin put it: Should somebody determined “to be a member of an enemy force who has come to this nation or is in this nation to attack us as a member of a foreign enemy, should that person be treated according to the laws of war? The answer is yes.”

Detainees treated according to the laws of war have the protections of the Geneva Conventions.

They cannot be tortured.

The Obama regime opposes military detention, because detainees would have some rights.

These rights would interfere with the regime’s ability to send detainees to CIA torture prisons overseas.

This is what the Obama regime means when it says that the requirement of military detention denies the regime “flexibility.”

Within these elite psychopaths who rise to the highest positions there is inside an emotional void while upon the outside an ability to appear outwardly normal  to display whatever emotion is considered required.

Psychopaths do not experience shame guilt or remorse  their attitude to people who are not psychopaths is contempt.

Using superficial charm, elite psychopaths are willing to say anything to anyone without concern for accuracy or truth.

Traits of psychopaths

1. Glibness/superficial charm

2. Grandiose sense of self-worth

3. Pathological lying

4. Cunning/manipulative

5. Lack of remorse or guilt

7. Callous/lack of empathy

8. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

9. Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom

10. Parasitic lifestyle

11. Promiscuous sexual behavior

All that matters to these 'intraspecies predators' is that the potential consequences of their actions bring a high that they can experience from the harm and pain that they cause.

Difficult for normal person to except reality of 9-11

The difficulty for normal human people who experience emotional empathy is that they cannot understand a non-empathetic human or non-human 'alien' psychopathic mind!

The psychopath lives in a world the empathetic human cannot reach!

Psychopaths enjoying the high

 a front Alter uncertain

Image: US government

Killing unarmed Osama bin Laden ‘doesn’t serve justice’

 British Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

Comment from Kewe:

Well we don't know if the death actually took place or if this is another staged event.

I would like to hear from the wife and the daughter before making any final assertion.

Why? Because we know that the present established US Congress, US President, Government and Supreme Court is now nothing more than ongoing acts of falsehood and deception.

That everything they do is within the framework of falsehood deception and corruption.

But saying Osama was killed in this incident, then the Archbishops comments are refreshing to hear and more than appropriate.

There is a basic morality within the Universe  Americans and those in the west and elsewhere on the planet who forget such do so at their peril!

One must remember that Osama within his framework of understanding was a moral man  a man who wished only to rid the Arabic countries of American domination!

And we must remembet that 9-11 was a creation of a cabal of various elite in the US using Mossad and US black-budget agencies.

Here below is an abbreviated comment from Pat that also is appropriate:

Why does the archbishop wish to involve himself in President Obama’s fairy-tale when he has his own fairy-tale to deal with.

Let Obama find his way out of his fable by clicking his heels or whatever other magic he cares to use.

( 'Clicking his heels' a metaphor for that which takes place when the magic shoes in the Wizard of Oz are clicked  themes words and actions taken from the many books of Oz by L Frank Baum are used in Illuminati/US military/US black-budget mind control programming including the clicking sound 'the clicking of heels' to activate such programming.

Someone who has psychopathic tendencies can be mind-controlled into altered personalities that are both psychopathic and empathic.

While there is a downside if the core essence is psychopathic  and may at some moment decide to take its own course  in most instances having psychopathic tendencies forced by programmed early childhood trauma is an added benefit to the controller in that the work in disabling a range of Alter personalities in the mind  with regard to their empathic tendency  has already been done. It is easier to restore empathy  the ability to identify with another's feelings  for a front Alter personality to use, than to take empathy away. )

In reality Obama is not the US President, can not be for his birth removes him from that position by the US constitution.

That Obama would deliberately present a false birth certificate and appear on TV with the falsity blown up behind him, well that if nothing else explains much about the present!

Kewe

In 1960/61 the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Census Bureau, classified non-Whites who were not Asian, American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, Hawaiian, part-Hawaiian, as Negro.

Caucasian was commonly used for the racial classification of white and light-brown skin-colored people ancestry origination from Europe.

The 1960 U.S. Census re-added the word “color” to the racial question and changed “Indian” to “American Indian.”

The 1970 U.S. Census included “Negro or Black” as designations of race.

In the United Kingdom, 'black' and 'Asian' were used in the 1961 census to describe those who were 'non-white British' nationals.

In the United Kingdom, except for 'Red Indian' and 'Eskimo' used for many brown skin-colored people in the Americas, 'Black' or 'blacks' has been used for all brown and dark skin-colored 'colonized' people in the previous centuries, as Kipling and other authors show.

The consensus among intelligence agency experts is that the Obama long form Certificate of Live Birth was hastily manufactured by an amateur who never thought of using the standard race designation of Negro in Barack Obama, Sr.'s racial designation block on the form either due to ignorance or an attempt to be politically correct in 2011 by refusing to use an accepted term from 1961.

Since Larry Sinclair first made his revelations about Obama in early 2008, Sinclair has been consistent in his story about twice engaging in drug use and oral sex with Obama in Chicago in 1999.

Given the facts that one of Chicago's major newspapers devoted time to investigate the story and yet-to-be-released phone call record information gathered by Chicago police as evidence to prove Sinclair's conversations with Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young before his brutal murder on December 23, 2007, the story about Obama's secret life style refuses to go away.

The tabloid, The Glove, has been on the story and Donald Young's mother, Norma Jean Young, recently told the paper that her late son and Obama had a relationship and she believes her son was murdered to protect Obama.

Many of the region's important organisms, such as blue fin tuna and shrimp, use the wetlands at some point in their lifetime.

Adult tuna breed during the late spring and early summer.

Their eggs then float to shore and the larvae grow in the wetlands, protected from predators.

Any decent chemist will tell you that surfactants, which are the primary ingredient in Corexit destroy cell membranes  including larval membranes of larval tuna eggs, shrimp and any other marine life trying to develop.

So the gulf world-devastating eventis due to the Illuminati planning to invade Iran!

According to the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) sources within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Pentagon and Interior and Energy Departments told the Obama administration the newly-discovered oil was estimated at 3-4 billion barrels.

The Obama administration was told if a military attack [US/Israel] took place on Iran  resulting in the bottling up of the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic and a cut-off of oil to the United States from the Persian Gulf  this new oil in the Gulf of Mexico would cover America's oil needs for up to eight months.

Alex Jones: Coming to you from deep inside enemy lines from occupied USA  we want America back. We're the good guys. The Globalists are the bad guys. Choose sides!

Chuck Baldwin we're got a headline up on PrisonPlanet.com 'Obama wants the oil spill crises to get worse.'

He's been under massive pressure to let the oil skimmers in. Now he says he might in the next month. Because the hurricanes are already there to blow in more oil. Give us your brief take on that, given the whole history of it. I was talking to your during the break. Do you think there's sabotage?

Chuck Baldwin: I think Obama and the administration knew about the problems that the BP oilwell had as early as January and February of this year. [2010] I think they deliberately did nothing in order to exacerbate the problem.

I personally believe  let's put it this way  I suspect sabotage. I suspect that Halliburton and the Bush, Clinton crime cabal is behind a lot of this. BP is going to go bankrupt over this. It's not an accident that it's a BP oilwell that was targeted because there is a major rift going on right now between the higher level officials in Great Britain and the Bush Clinton crime syndicate.

Alex Jones: Yes, for those who don't know it's on record with CIA officer Terry Reed and others that Bush and Clinton actually work together. That's all a staged event. Shifting gears, what else in your view is the oil spill distracting from....

Chuck Baldwin: Well obviously they want to use it to pass the cap-and-trade energy monstrosity. But I think what it's overlooking is, Alex, there's probably six trillion dollars  and I know we throw these numbers around and nobody can calculate that high  we're talking 6 trillion dollars that's hanging around out there that the British bankers believe has been stolen from them. Whenever this well went up and all the pressure now that's placed upon BP, and probably going to go bankrupt, what that is going to do throughout Britain and Europe, I believe this was a signal by the people that stole that money to say 'Leave us alone.'

There are things here going on that I believe are so criminal. That are so evil. That are so sinister, that the American people know nothing about and the American media especially is not going to tell us that we need to know. But there are things going on behind the scene here that this oil well is a diversion, or perhaps we can say a warning....

Alex Jones: Well, take the Federal Reserve reorganization, that even the Washington Post admits gives them unlimited power over all financial institutions and things that effect the economy. In Andrew Napolitano's words, 'This is a total seizure of the economy.' So the Federal Reserve engineers the banking collapse, now they get even more power. It's all happening right now. Bird dying sabotaged that at least for the next few weeks  actually a gift from God. I'm not glad he's dead but that screwed up the passage of it. So it's all happening at once.

Chuck Baldwin: It is! And it is all happening, I think, in a coordinated effort. I do not believe that these things are isolated
incidences. I just don't believe that. These things are too big and too coincidental and the ramifications are too monstrous to suggest that this in not something but a design behind it. I think that is exactly what's going on. I think it is all related to the things I have been talking about today, to the things you're talking about. Obviously they are not going to let a crisis go without using it.

You have an oil field the size of Scotland. When a hurricane comes through it will spread the toxic cocktail over Texas and surrounding areas and what could happen has never happened before  it will rain oil and chemicals.

He went on to say that the amount of oil leaking has not been reported

...it's at least 150,000 pds.

The sea bed floor is cracking and it is going collapse... the well casing is going to collapse.

All the workers out there know this.

The gases you breath in are going to impact any first responders... and people out there.

There are other rigs in the Mississippi Canyon... That is what this area is called.

BP's crews don't have the money behind them to contain the spill.

How much oil is actually leaking out of the casing.. how much pressure... The question to ask is what is the pounds per square inch...

Do not be deceived by Lindsay Williams and others who are saying a nuke is the way to seal the leaks.

(end of 2nd whistleblower testimony)

From another whistleblower:

If a nuke goes off it will cause rivers of fire to ignite the hidden methane and gas leaks currently coming out of the ground in Texas and north.

A river of fire will lead to a chain- reaction that will ignite the Yellowstone Super Volcano to erupt which will in turn ignite the chain of volcanoes down the West Coast ring of fire going down into South America.

'The judgment of the court of appeals should be reversed, and the case should be remanded with instructions to vacate the permanent injunction [Against Monsanto] entered by the district court.'

As stated in the article below:

'Monsanto's GE crops have, in fact, bred new voracious super-weeds, which have forced farmers to 'spray fields with more toxic herbicides, pull weeds by hand, and return to more labor-intensive methods like regular plowing.'

More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers each day for the use of 'Israel', which presently involves the imprisonment of the remaining segregated ' Bantustan  Apartheid ' parcels of land occupied by millions of Palestinian people.

Palestinians were forced from their homes 60 years ago from what is now called 'Israel' into refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon.

While attempts have been made by the Palestinians to create a better life for themselves, these refugee camps have been forced upon them to this day by American Taxpayer funding, and Anglo American, Europe backing and banking for 'Israel' that has propped up the forced 'state of Israel' for more than fifty years.

Illuminati, New World Order elite have been at the forefront in protecting European and American settler people who stole the land and continue to steal the remaining few segments of land from the Palestinians, in essence taking away from the Palestinians piece by piece this land over these many years.

Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.

Kept in existence by a continual drain upon the US taxpayer, the criminality of US legislatures and the US administration continues unabated.

In this instance, Khan Younis in Gaza, Palestine, US paid and made shelling targeted children playing football.

3 children, one six years old, were critically injured.

Ambulances that sought to provide assistance were prevented for a period of time.

The monsters, for that can only be the description of those involved, who choose to take retribution from children for their soldier's deaths, opened fire on the ambulances so that the ambulances would be prevented from getting to the injured children, the most critical only 6 years old.

No! This is not some propaganda!

This is not some government trying to convince its population to start another war!

Aided and abetted by the most powerful nations, this collection of aliens who have absolutely zilch cultural heritage in Palestine, have been allowed to steal the Palestine Semitic people's territory, create a faux 'country,' and are now being allowed to commit whatever acts they wish to perpetrate upon the people from which the territory has been stolen.

The collaboration of Western States in these crimes of Palestinian deaths and injury goes beyond any words that can be expressed.

Germany, its people seeing more than a combined million Jews, Roma, Homosexual, Mentally disabled sent to be killed in the Second World War, has for the past 60 years been part of the decimation of the Palestinian people and their land.

The extent of the stupidity of the German people exceeding only the stupidity of the English and American people.

Kewe

White phosphorous shells made by the US and given to Israel for its war crime use in the Palestine territories killed and injured many in the Gaza attack of late December and January 2009

Of those injured many were severely burned and did not recover

Of those that have survived they now have a lifetime of recovering from this heinous chemical warfare  weapons made and shipped to Israel at no cost by the US

White phosphorous munitions that remain unexploded since the January 2009 attack on Gaza by the US and Israel are blown up March 15, 2010, by UN and Hamas sappers.

More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers each day for the use of Israel, which presently involves the imprisonment of the remaining segregated ' Bantustan  Apartheid ' parcels of land occupied by millions of Palestinian people.

Palestinians were forced from their homes 60 years ago from what is now called Israel into refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon.

While attempts have been made by the Palestinians to create a better life for themselves, these refugee camps have been forced upon them to this day by American Taxpayer funding, and Anglo American, Europe backing and banking for Israel that has propped up the forced 'state' of Israel for more than fifty years.

Illuminati, New World Order elite have been at the forefront in protecting European and American settler people who stole the land and continue to steal the remaining few segments of land from the Palestinians, in essence taking away from the Palestinians piece by piece this land over these many years.

Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.

Photo: AFP/Said Khatib

Palestine doctors treat a wounded six year old boy at the Nasser Hospital after he was wounded by Israel shelling in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, the shelling injuring the children being retribution for Israel soldier's deaths.

More than Fifteen million US dollars is given by US taxpayers each day for the use of Israel, which presently involves the imprisonment of the remaining segregated ' Bantustan  Apartheid ' parcels of land occupied by millions of Palestinian people.

Palestinians were forced from their homes 60 years ago from what is now called Israel into refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon.

While attempts have been made by the Palestinians to create a better life for themselves, these refugee camps have been forced upon them to this day by American Taxpayer funding, and Anglo American, Europe backing and banking for Israel that has propped up the forced 'state' of Israel for more than fifty years.

Illuminati, New World Order elite have been at the forefront in protecting European and American settler people who stole the land and continue to steal the remaining few segments of land from the Palestinians, in essence taking away from the Palestinians piece by piece this land over these many years.

Funding by the US Taxpayer for the enslavement of the Palestinian people continues to increase, estimated now considerably more than the previous 4 billion US dollars per year.

Afghan men gather around bodies of villagers killed in a US NATO attack raid in the eastern province of Laghman, Afghanistan, on December 8, 2009.

US NATO killed six non-combatant people, civilians, during a pre-dawn attack Tuesday on eastern Afghanistan.

Photo: AFP/Str

According to a recent statistics, one gallon oil costs the invading troops $400 and annual expenditure of one soldier is almost one million US dollar.

The aim of the Mujahideen is to have a free and independent country and Islamic government which represents the aspirations of the Afghan people.

These are natural rights of people which has nothing to do with terrorism.

But the so-called advocates of democracy and human rights are not ready to give these natural rights to the Afghans and to the Mujahideen.

However, the word of terrorism is still not exactly defined.

Who are the terrorists?

Those who defend their country, faith, values and natural rights or those who throw deci-cutter bombs and fire Hellfire missile at wedding, funeral ceremonies and rallies.

Thousands of innocent Afghans have been killed in Nangarhar, Urozgan, Hirat, Fara, Kunduz and Paktya provinces as a result of American and NATO blind bombardment.

Had they any role whatsoever in the 9/ 11 event?

No.

Of course, no.

Afghan Resistance of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Of course not, but you cannot tell the dumbed-down mind-controlled worker-bee slaves who daily get their brainwashing from Western television BBC et al, from all forms of Americanized movies, radio and controlled newspapers; continually fed ideas that 24 hours each day entertain the brain-formations within these slaves.

Under conditions of growing unemployment and deepening social misery for working people throughout the US, President Barack Obama flew into New York City Tuesday to raise millions of dollars in campaign donations from America’s financial elite.

Obama stole this money from the people, gave it to the elite, and now gets his handouts from them to finance his campaign of lies targeted against the people.

Some president!

Some asshole!

Being Prepared

by Scott McPherson

An extra bag of beans and an extra bag of rice

Several months ago a good friend of mine told me that every time she goes to the supermarket she picks up an extra bag of beans and an extra bag of rice.

Her husband, a Second Amendment enthusiast (to put it mildly), has the ammunition stash covered.

She's making sure the family has plenty of food if things should get really bad.

Following her advice, I've started doing the same thing.

Obama Forever!

But there's another type of preparedness we should all consider.

My wife and I like music, especially live music. Last month we went to our favorite music venue in the world.

Our neighbor has a band, which was opening up for another band that he highly recommended, so, funds and a babysitter being available, we had a night out.

Both bands were great. We danced and drank good beer. The low-point, however, came at the end of the evening.

The headliner band, after playing one long set, dedicated their encore to 'President Obama.'

The crowd, mostly young people from nearby University of New Hampshire, cheered enthusiastically.

But it gets worse: the bass player stepped up to the microphone and, pumping his fist in the air, shouted "Obama Forever!"

I'm not kidding.

The crowd went nuts.

I don't remember what song they played; I'd stopped listening at that point.

I did shout "Long Live the King" at the top of my voice, but I doubt anyone heard, or understood what I was talking about, or cared, if they did.

I want to see what evil looks like

I walked to the back of the room and stood by the main exit.

As soon as the encore was done the lights would come up, and everyone would start filing out.

I made it a point that night to look in the face of every single person that went past.

After a few minutes my wife spotted me and came over. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I want to see what evil looks like," I responded.

This isn't partisan; I feel the same way when I see McCain's Republican Robots chanting wildly and waving their fascistic 'Country First' signs at their would-be Emperor.

I got sick of listening to old people whose children were grown and out of school complain about property taxes

On Tuesday and Thursday evenings I take a small class; I'm learning to play bass guitar, and gather with several others to play in an Ensemble coached by a local musician.

Just a few days ago, when we were taking a break, me and one of the other students walked to the Panera next door for a coffee.

I've talked to this guy before, and know he's a Democrat; his frequent pontifications on the virtues of high taxes, government regulation, and universal healthcare was my first clue.

He also knows I'm a libertarian.

We haven't talked much, but I'm sure to inject a reasoned rebuttal everytime he fouls off at the mouth.

As we stood in line, he said, "There's something about New Hampshire. I feel different when I'm here." (He's from Maine.)

I didn't really care what he meant; I was certain I wouldn't agree with it. So I said, "Maybe it's freedom. You live in one of the highest-taxed states in the union."

He then proceeded to lecture me, sneering all the while, about New Hampshire's high property taxes.

"Sure," I said. "It's too high  especially when so much of it pays for services I don't use! How's about I get back that third or so that funds the public schools?"

In a classic deflection, he said, "When I lived in Florida I got so sick of listening to old people, whose children were grown and out of school, complain about the property taxes."

I didn't hestitate. I said, "The difference is, I've never had a child in any public school. So can I have that money back now?"

More deflection: "So who's going to pave that street in front of your house," he sneered, "the Road Fairy?"

I wanted to stay on topic, so rather than get into a debate on private roads, I kept him focused.

"If I use a service, I ought to pay for it," I said. "But what about those public schools?"

There's only a desire to impose their will on the rest of us

At this point he'd had enough. Turning his back to me, he said, contemptuously, dismissively: "We're all in this together."

No dictator ever said it better.

Later that evening, in class, I took a good, long look at that man.

I wanted to see what evil looks like.

Be they Fascist Republicans or Marxist Democrats, one common thread runs through their thinking: there is no right or wrong. There's only a desire to impose their will on the rest of us.

By all means, stock up on beans, rice, ammunition, fuel, and gold.

If the Empire is crumbling  and I believe it is  you'll need all of those things.

Take him at his word

More important, though, is that we be mentally prepared for what is coming.

When your friend, neighbor, colleague, or any passing aquaintance declares himself for evil, take him at his word.

Excerpts WIBDI: A Prism for the New Paradigm Wednesday November 5, 2008

WIBDI: What If Bush Did It?

This user-friendly analytical tool provides a quick and easy way of determining the value of any given policy while correcting one's perception for partisan bias.

Simply take a particular action or proposal and submit it to the WIBDI test: If Bush did this, would you think it was OK?

Or would you condemn it as the act of a warmonger, or a tyrant, or a corrupt corporate tool, etc.?

The just-concluded campaign has already shown us how our hordes of our quondam dissidents have signally failed this test, excusing, countenancing, defending or even embracing the actions and positions enumerated below by Chris Hedges:

"Sen. Barack Obama’s vote to renew the Patriot Act, his votes to continue to fund the Iraq war, his backing of the FISA Reform Act, his craven courting of the Israeli lobby, his support of the death penalty, his refusal to champion universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans, his call to increase troop levels and expand the war in Afghanistan, his failure to call for a reduction in the bloated and wasteful defense spending and his lobbying for the huge taxpayer swindle known as the bailout..."

To which we could add his bellicose saber-rattling at Iran.

His promise to roll back 'Russian aggression' and extend war-triggering treaty protection to an aggressive Georgian regime (which cluster-bombed its own people, as we learned this week).

His advocacy of destabilizing and civilian-shredding military strikes in Pakistan.

His opposition to gay marriage (and campaigning with gay-bashing preachers)

And his support for extending the death penalty to cover non-fatal offenses, and so on.

Almost no one in national political life, and almost no writer of prominence, will acknowledge the full meaning of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq: because Iraq never constituted a serious threat to the U.S., and because that fact was readily apparent in the winter and spring of 2002-2003 (even to an honest citizen with no "expert" specialized knowledge), the U.S. invasion was a criminal act of aggression, identical in principle to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.

This foundational fact has many further implications, and one of them is critical in evaluating the two major presidential candidates: since the invasion was a criminal act of aggression, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is similarly an ongoing series of monstrous war crimes.

To vote to fund the continuing occupation is to be an accomplice to genocide and to the destruction of an entire nation and its peoples, and thus to be a war criminal.

Most Americans who vote this November, and probably many of you reading this, will vote for one of these war criminals.

I no longer care what rationalizations people use to justify such a detestable choice  that one war criminal is not quite as bad as the other for some unspecified reason, that one of these bastards speechifies more prettily than the other and touches some inchoate, indefinable emotional chord in your stunted soul, that (as a friend recently observed to me privately, in condemning this version of the excuse) we've had white assholes governing this country for so long that it's only 'fair' to have a black asshole in charge for a change.

I don't give a damn what reason you give yourself for your embrace of evil, for only one fact matters:

Barack Obama's candidacy for president reveals critical fissures in the historical African American worldview, forcing Black citizens and activists to make a choice:

Will we support a cosmetic change in regime that is no more than skin deep  endorsing the ruling structure because it has a Black face  or continue on the long journey to self-determination, true social democracy and peace.

Obama, the political twin of Hillary Clinton and the corporate Democratic Leadership Council her husband helped found, is determined to liquidate Black politics as an independent force in the United States, having already proclaimed, "There is no Black America."

"Obama personifies the definitive end of Black organized struggle in the United States."

Barack Obama is the antithesis of Black Power, a man who promises with every word he speaks, with every nuance of phrase and body language, and through his voting record as a U.S. Senator, that he personifies the definitive end of Black organized struggle in the United States  a unilateral surrender to white racism.

This is his appeal to the white masses: that they will no longer be challenged to confront history, or to relinquish privilege in the present.

Obama's siren song to African Americans is of an entirely different nature.

He does not have to sing it; we provide the music, ourselves.

The lyrics and melody are actually alien to Obama, but he has heard them off and on in his strange sojourn through life, and senses their power to sway us.

He understands that most of us will demand nothing from him  not even elemental allegiance.

His "Black" flank, he knows, is covered, while his white "progressive" flank is neutralized and confused by Black failure to recoil at his betrayals of the most basic elements of social democracy.

The field is wide open to the greatest opportunist to emerge from melanin-rich ranks in the New Millennium.

Obama has already cashed in on his "Race, but not really, Card"  to the tune of $25 million dollars in contributions in the first three months of this year, three-quarters of it from corporations.

This does not happen by accident.

Since setting foot in the U.S. Senate, Obama has directed his entire message machine to the task of convincing corporate America that he is a friend who can be counted on to leave the actual Power Game in their hands.

One of his first votes was to transfer most class action suits to federal courts, where multi-billion-dollar companies found guilty of race, gender or general employee abuse are fined the equivalent of the millionaire CEO's latest weekend at the casinos in Monaco.

In the process of taking class action suits out of state courts, where the penalties to offending corporations have historically been much harsher, Obama voted against an amendment to put a cap of 30 percent on credit card debt charges.

A fraction of that multi-billion dollar gift to the most unproductive sector of the economy wound up in his campaign coffers.

"Obama understands that most of us will demand nothing from him  not even elemental allegiance."

The alienated man from Kansas, Hawaii, Indonesia and Harvard has not skipped a beat in his pursuit of Power Approval.

He stood down while only California Senator Barbara Boxer stood up to challenge the theft of Black voting rights in the 2004 election.

He has stuck like Crazy Glue to positions on the Iraq war and health care that are practically indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton's  and in no way threaten the military-industrial complex or health care-insurance industries.

Obama vows to add 100,000 more troops to the U.S. aggression and occupation for oil force, to be deployed...wherever his masters want them to go.

Obama is a company man.

He knows the language, the subtle and overt signals, and emits them like a beacon.

Ruling circles have gotten the message, and that is why corporate media have made him a contender, and corporate billfolds have financed him.

The "skinny kid" made his bones at the Democratic National Convention, in August, 2004, while he was still an Illinois senatorial candidate  a shoo-in against the hopeless and deranged Black Republican Alan Keyes.

Obama put all white fears to rest:

"There is no white America.

"There is no black America.

"There is no Latino America.

"There is no Asian America.

"There is only the United States of America."

Hallelujah!

Therefore, there is no specific oppression of Black people in America (carried out by whites), and there is no Black polity worth paying attention to.

Voila, the problem of centuries is solved!

"Obama vows to add 100,000 more troops to the U.S. aggression and occupation for oil force."

The litany of Obama's subsequent transgressions against the entirety of Black struggle is too long to recount in this article, and can only be understood as methodical elements of a studied plan to eliminate race as a subject of debate in American political life.

Obama is the NOT-Black candidate, who just looks Black, and will absolve white folks  like a priest behind a screen  of historical, present, and future sins.

He will integrate the mythical American narrative, washing it clean of real facts by his very presence and gleaming smile.

He is happy. White folks are happy. Blacks are happy. Oh, happy days!

The Internal Enemy

In his journey to personal identity  dishonestly but expertly packaged for white and corporate audiences in his two books  Obama learned a salient and elemental fact of Black life: we want recognition by the nation as a whole, and some connection to the national narrative.

It does not matter that none of them, including Lincoln, thought of Black people as equals or even, in some cases, human.

Such is the hunger.

"Obama has become a great presence that threatens the very fabric of Black politics."

We at Black Agenda Report are not immune to the illness.

While our team was operating out of Black Commentator, in 2003, Bruce Dixon and I discovered that Obama was listed as a member of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the corporate-funded rightwing of the party, created by white southern Democrats (Bill Clinton, Al Gore) for the purpose of blunting Black and labor influence in the party's affairs.

Obama was at the time a national nobody, not ranked as a front-runner in the Illinois senatorial primary.

We called him on his alleged affiliation with the DLC, which was posted for all to see.

He claimed to know nothing about it  a transparent lie.

But we gave the "brother" a pass, and engaged him in a dialogue.

There followed a month-long series of interchanges  June 5, June 12, June 19, June 26, 2003  in which Obama danced like Mr. Bojangles to get around the issues at hand.

Was he a DLC Democrat, by affiliation or political affinity?

Finally, tiring of the charade and the reflexive spin from Obama's mouth, Dixon and I compiled three questions to the wannabe senator, the answers to which would determine if he should be in the DLC and, therefore, unworthy of our support.

Obama, a genius at double-speak, fudged all three, on the Iraq war, universal health care, and NAFTA/so-called free trade.

We gave him a pass, and said he was clean, although both of us knew by then he was an inveterate liar and evader.

He had actually flunked the "bright line" test.

Neither of us wanted to be the ones to put a damper on an up-and-coming Black star.

We understood that our people didn't want crabs in the barrel, pulling brothers down, or the appearance of it.

We apologize, to our people and to history.

Since that time as a nobody, Obama has become a great presence that threatens the very fabric of Black politics, having declared there is no such thing.

At a recent gathering of Black trade unionists who support the most left-wing social democratic agenda that is allowed in American political discourse, Obama was treated as a savior  despite the fact that his applause-filled speech endorsed almost none of the specific planks of Black trade unionists.

He had fudged again, and gotten away with it.

No white man could pull it off, but Obama did, and entertained fans for an hour afterwards, taking pictures with folks who wanted to show their grandchildren that they had been in the presence of the next Black president.

There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This is absolute nonsense.

In truth, the history of the conflict is not over occupation, and never has been: it is over the fundamental right of Israel to exist.

The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of devastating violence, now comes from Iran.

For too long, leaders of both political parties in the United States have not done nearly enough to confront the Russians and the Chinese, who have supplied Iran as it has plowed ahead with its nuclear and missile technology....

In the words of Isaiah, we will make ourselves to Israel 'as hiding places from the winds and shelters from the tempests; as rivers of water in dry places; as shadows of a great rock in a weary land.'